April Adventures with Everly

This month marked 21 full months with our little Everly. She is talking in sentences, getting into trouble, and melting my heart daily. She’s the sweetest, most curious little girl. BUT she also has her stubborn side. I post a lot of our daily activities in my Instagram stories, but thought I’d recap the month of April on here.

Everly’s Toys

We got a few new toys/activities this month including Kinetic Sand, our favorite Crayola Color Wonder Coloring Pads, a bubble gun, and even a harmonica (from her Pa Pa). She could walk around playing it all day… but I’m not tryin’ to go deaf by 35.

Moving Update

Yes, we’re moving, so most of Everly’s toys are packed up a little storage unit. We’ve been trying to sell our house — heyyy! Someone come buy it, please! Between open houses and showings it’s been pretty stressful to get Everly and the cats out and keep the house clean. The new house is in the same neighborhood, just a few streets over, but it has more square feet and PARKING! Woooo!

Easter

We headed to Cape Cod to visit with family for Easter. It was the first event of the year at the country club with a special visit from the Easter bunny. (BTW Everly is scared to death of it). There was a small egg hunt and sooo much food including raw bar, omelet station, beef tenderloin, etc. I’m still full from that dang buffet… ha not really though.

Baby Showers

I was lucky enough to co-host a baby shower for my best friend in Florida early in the month. We took a trip to South Florida to enjoy the festivities. Everly did great on the flight down, but ended up with a horrible case of separation anxiety/teething while we were there. The shower went off without a hitch – highly recommend ordering everything baby related on Etsy. It was so simple! And of course, now my baby fever is at an all time high because my best friend is due in June!

Franklin Zoo

We took a day trip to the Franklin Zoo with Everly. I’m not usually a fan of zoo’s, but this one has tons of green space and an enormous playground that Everly loves. We saw all kinds of animal and even went into the feeding area. It was really fun to see Everly’s face when she recognized an animal in real life from a book or movie. The gorillas and the petting area were the highlights!

Everly’s Meals

Between months 6 and 18 I put a lot of unnecessary effort into making Everly’s meals. I would make Jake and I dinner and then always make something else for Everly and I got completely burnt out. In the last few months we have started giving Everly the same thing that we eat for dinner almost every night and she’s actually been eating it! I could probably do a full blog post on this, but my best recommendation for new moms is to give your children the same food as you from day 1! There is no need to make a separate mac and cheese, chicken nuggets and steamed broccoli when your child could be perfectly fine eating the same thing as you. I learned this the hard way and had to re-train her, but lately it’s been great! For lunches I will make her some of her favorite staples: homemade chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, cheese quesadillas, etc.

Her favorite foods right now are steak, roasted sweet potatoes, pickles, smoothies, and cottage cheese! BASICALLY all of my favorites too 🙂

Jake and I have been making Green Chef meals for almost two years and we love them. We have the Omnivore box and get three meals weekly for each of us. Here’s a coupon code if you’d like to try it out!